It's a multimillion dollar project that was years in the making. Finally, after multiple searches, setbacks, disappointments and a wide-reaching fundraising effort, the new building is ready to go, save for a few finishing touches.

It's a new home for the only Catholic High School in the county and a bolster to Flint's efforts to renovate its underused, aging buildings and return people to the city center.

Fay Hall is a stately, 100-year-old building overlooking Flint from the top of a hill. In recent years, it had fallen into disrepair. The 68,000-square-foot building and its four 50-foot concrete pillars overlooking West Court Street and Miller Road has stood as a city landmark since it opened in 1914.

Walking through it today, the building feels brand-new.

The original 68,000-square-foot structure nearly doubled in size with an addition that includes a media center, cafeteria, chapel, gym and weight and locker rooms. Now, the building is about 150,000 square feet.

The building has roughly 30 classrooms, in addition to several offices.

"It's almost one of those 'I can't believe it's really happening,'" moments, said Stacey Turczyn, who teaches AP English, accounting and public speaking.

Turczyn has been with Powers for eight years and sent her children here. She said leaving the old building on Carpenter Road was tough.

The building still has the words "Michigan School for the Deaf" etched into the concrete above the entry, but the Powers name is emblazoned on the front of the new addition.

Classrooms have high ceilings and multiple windows. Lockers painted orange and blue -- Powers' colors -- line the hallways.

Katie Staudt is starting her first year of teaching at the new school.

"I think it's a beautiful building and great opportunity," Staudt said.

In the side lawn, a patch were grass is still coming in, a large rock is painted white and painted in orange and blue. The Powers logo is painted on one side. On another side is a large orange heart with one blue word inside the heart: